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  • And he saw the long Mexican border arid and sun-washed and aching, and along it he saw the ragged bands that delayed only for the guns.

    The Mexican 2010

  • They cleared the crest and emerged from the pool as if into another world, for now they were in the thicket of velvet-trunked young madronos and looking down the open, sun-washed hillside, across the nodding grasses, to the drifts of blue and white nemophilae that carpeted the tiny meadow on either side the tiny stream.

    Chapter XXIV 2010

  • I headed for its sun-washed deck, which provided a view of the creek.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • He arrived on board a tiny schooner yacht, master and owner, a youth questing romance and adventure along the sun-washed path of the tropics.

    A SON OF THE SUN 2010

  • In particular, Twitter Inc. is expected to relocate its headquarters in the middle of next year to a few blocks away from Zuni's sun-washed space, bringing well over 1,000 employees to the area.

    Zuni Café 2011

  • Bougainville, in the Solomons, and if this line be bisected at two degrees south of the equator by a line drawn from Ukuor, in the Carolines, the high island of Fuatino will be raised in that sun-washed stretch of lonely sea.

    THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

  • The Ancient Mariner nodded, and his sun-washed eyes twinkled.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • I headed for its sun-washed deck, which provided a view of the creek.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • A long time he waited, when, with thirst unslaked, he crept back to his horse, rode slowly across the sun-washed clearing, and passed into the shelter of the woods beyond.

    War 2010

  • He wondered if there was soul in those steel-gray eyes that were often quite blue of color and that were strong with the briny airs of the sun-washed deep.

    Chapter 4 2010

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